Category: Indonesia

  • After checking the surf reports, the waves looked as though they were going to take a short hiatus.  Instead of hanging around Bali, we decided to take the advice of our Couch Surfing host Jacopo and flew to Yogyakarta to check out Borobudur and Prambanan, two of Indonesia’s most famous temples, plus a couple of…

  • It had been one month of eating rice and noodles, staying in the cheapest accommodations we could bare, and learning to haggle the hustlers when my parents showed up in Bali.  This was their first time to Bali and it was a quasi honeymoon reunion.  They were supposed to be here 36 years ago for…

  • After Shaun departed we headed straight for Bingin. I hired a car and we packed up our gear. The driver didn’t want to put the boards on the roof because it makes you a red flag for the cops to pull you over for a bribe so we stuffed all the gear in a mini…

  • So back to Bali we went.  We arranged for a driver to take us to Bandarlampung airport where we caught a plane to Jakarta on Sriwijaya Airlines.   The ticket was around $50 each and we were charged only $8 for all of our surfboards. We hopped on the plane and about 2 hours later landed…

  • Check out our video Chichi helped us find a reliable driver to take us to Ujung Gentang.  We had to pay a little more but it was a faster and more comfortable ride than if we hired a bimo,  not to mention safer too.  We began our three hour journey up a windy mountain road.…